I wish all the old WWII guys would get in their wheel chairs, walkers, and slippers and hobble down to Parliament and scream:
Bloody hell! What the fuck! It looks like we wasted our time and our buddies' lives fighting the Germans!
And then flog all the PMs with their canes.
Yes, because the UK is famous for its death camps. Oh
If they try then China will simply foreclose on the USA's debt.
Ok, the reality is more complicated than that, but China is in a very strong position and the West isn't.
I don't know if you've ever tried to obtain Halon lately
I'm not sure, but I suspect that NASA would be able to get hold of things like that more easily than I could.
On the other hand, the French eat a lot of fat and also suffer fewer heart attacks than the British or the Americans.
Myth, for what it's worth (and I know it was a joke). It turned out to be due to under-reporting of heart attacks by French doctors.
No, that was debunked. There is no real evidence that saturated fat causes heart disease. It's not a paradox.
The effect of the under-reporting is small, but if you look at the correlation between heart attack rates and the relevant fat intakes then a small effect is all that's needed to bring the correlation into line with the rest of the world. I wish it were true that "[t]here is no real evidence that saturated fat causes heart disease", but sadly that's just wishful thinking. The French case actually reinforces this, because it shows that the causal model has predictive power; that's good science.
On the other hand, the French eat a lot of fat and also suffer fewer heart attacks than the British or the Americans.
Myth, for what it's worth (and I know it was a joke). It turned out to be due to under-reporting of heart attacks by French doctors.
For adult education nothing beats children.